serious apprentice grr

[Mick Glenny]

Hello somebody please tell me I watched apprentice on bbc iplayer from last night this stuart guy says hes a director of a company with a turnover of 3 million pounds so explain why is he wanting to takea job for £100,000 a year.?

Also do you think hes lieing about this..?

Also if I had a company and somebody said I have my own up and comming company I would not take them further as there would not be 100% effort into a job you put them in.?

 

I think your first mistake is in treating The Apprentice as a business programme rather than light entertainment.

And yes; I am certain he is lying.

 

[Esk247]

One has already been accused of fraud..so..me thinks it's just a television programme at the end of the day.

It makes business look really really easy. All you do is phone up some retailers, say 'sellin for a pound lovey, a pound yeah, sellin em all for a pound' and then you'll be on your way to a million.

Why do the rest of us bother huh..it's simples.

 

[Mick Glenny]

I think your first mistake is in treating The Apprentice as a business programme rather than light entertainment.

And yes; I am certain he is lying.

I dont think he could make 3 million or be a director of a company because a company would rather employ a director who has more experience.?

 

[robertt]

Hello somebody please tell me I watched apprentice on bbc iplayer from last night this stuart guy says hes a director of a company with a turnover of 3 million pounds so explain why is he wanting to takea job for £100,000 a year.?

Sell ten pound notes for a fiver and you to can have your very own '£3,000,000 turnover' company very very quickly.

 

[puffin]

I know stuarts own company from some googling.

I didn't know RE: the £3m turnover directorship.

Hmm

 

[sanjiv]

1. He is director of a company turning over £3 mill. Not necessarily 100% shareholder.
2. Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity. If that makes no sense to you, then basically a company can have a good turnover but still be making a loss. If I were to buy 1,000,000 bananas for £1 each and sold them for £0.90 each, my turnover would be £900,000 but making a net loss of £100,000. Anyone can do it, just it would be stupid to do so.

 

[Mick Glenny]

I know stuarts own company from some googling.

I didn't know RE: the £3m turnover directorship.

Hmm

whats site.?

 

I can't find him listed as a Director of any UK company. I think his communications company went 'POP!

On another note; I wonder if the 'brand' crap is his own, or whether he was fed it?

 

[sanjiv]

His company is registered in the Isle of Man.

 

[mobyme]

http://www.bluewave.im/
http://blog.bluewave.im/
Must think we were all born yesterday.

 

[-Joe-]

Yeah, I laughed when he said that.

Although, Googling may not help, the company accounts may have dramatically changed since filming - it looked like it was filmed a while ago, I noticed them handing over some elgar £20 notes.

 

[gemd89]

Forget him, i still cant believe liz went! Im sure next wee stuart will have a lot of questions to answer!

Gemma

 

[Media inc]

all lies! I feel sorry for Stuart

 

[scribe]

What i don't understand is that he tells A Sugar that he will make him millions.Why not do that for himself ,maybe because he's been telling a few porkies the smug *****

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

So, if he's posting on his blog we can assume he doesn't win.

 

[sanjiv]

What i don't understand is that he tells A Sugar that he will make him millions.Why not do that for himself ,maybe because he's been telling a few porkies the smug *****

Because Sugar has the infrastructure and things ready for him to go out and make money. Takes time and effort to startup and make a good profit.

 

[Doodle-Noodle]

I LOVE this programme - I don't actually tret it as a business tutorial but I do think I've picked up a few tips over the past couple of years, evn if it's a "how not to do it"!
Stuart is a pillock of the first order - he is immature and arrogant beyond belief and would be impossible to place in a work environment where he may come into contact with anyone even vaguely normal. I don't believe he's as successful as he claims to be. You could never spend time in his company and retain your sanity. I thought Liz would win - Sugar revealed more about his own ego by admitting he saw something of himself in Stuart, still I don't suppose he got the success by being either nice, normal or socially able.
Thought Jamie's ridiculous tour-guide talk was hilarious - I never knew the River Thames was the 2nd biggest river in London or that Big Ben is "twenty diameters" - I am truly enlightened.

 

[gemd89]

You make me laugh doodles!

Gemma

 

[TheOnlineMarketingShop]

Hello somebody please tell me I watched apprentice on bbc iplayer from last night this stuart guy says hes a director of a company with a turnover of 3 million pounds so explain why is he wanting to takea job for £100,000 a year.?

Also do you think hes lieing about this..?

Also if I had a company and somebody said I have my own up and comming company I would not take them further as there would not be 100% effort into a job you put them in.?

He will get caught out in next weeks episode, its the interview round.

His CV is going to be picked to pieces

 

[Media inc]

Yes, I think so I think Claude Littner will kill him on hes cv. I also like the quote

" Alan sugar" Your going to make me millions in a company what does not exist yet"

I also like the comment about a child minder. lol

 

[BizGurl]

He will get caught out in next weeks episode, its the interview round.

His CV is going to be picked to pieces

Looking forward to muchly. Honestly, he should change his surname to Braggs. I've never heard/seen a young lad boast about himself so much! Talk about over inflated ego. Hopefully the interview round will let a bit of air out of his head.

 

[Media inc]

Yes I watched the final five tonight and why if they are doing well with there own companies do they want to go and work for alan sugar for less.?

 

[I Love Spreadsheets]

I think TheOnlineMarketingShop has got it right. I suspect the only reason he got through was for the entertainment the producers could get out of ripping his CV apart in next weeks episode.

Has anyone learnt anything from the Apprentice other than how not to do business?

I do find the American version of the Apprentice a lot better. It is slightly (only slightly) more business rather than entertainment based

 

[Media inc]

I just do not understand. Why if they all own there own companies and claim to be making alot more than Alan Sugar is offering per year why work for him.?

 

[I Love Spreadsheets]

I just do not understand. Why if they all own there own companies and claim to be making alot more than Alan Sugar is offering per year why work for him.?

If they are earning that much (which I doubt) the only reason to be there is to try and become famous. On past history they wont get anymore than small jobs on documentary shows.

I suspect their credentials will get ripped in to at the interview stage. I remember last year one contestant was shocked when one of the interviewers pulled up her accounts from companies house. (She had no idea they were publicly available)

 

[crossdaz]

I suspect their credentials will get ripped in to at the interview stage. I remember last year one contestant was shocked when one of the interviewers pulled up her accounts from companies house. (She had no idea they were publicly available)

And she actually won didn't she?

 

[SamStones]

I read somewhere that this year, rather than competing for a job, they're competing for a prize of £250k to be invested in their own venture - hence why there's more self employed people than normal this year.

The programming is all done around becoming an actual apprentice and working for lord sugar just to keep the format.

 

[I Love Spreadsheets]

That would explain it. Its strange that the format struggles here in the UK but thrives in the US which is now on about the 12th version if you count the celebrity versions.

I think the UK version tends to try and make fools of the contestants where as the US it tends to be have a more positive approach.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Who's the septic Alan Sugar?

 

[sanjiv]

I read somewhere that this year, rather than competing for a job, they're competing for a prize of £250k to be invested in their own venture - hence why there's more self employed people than normal this year.

The programming is all done around becoming an actual apprentice and working for lord sugar just to keep the format.

That is the next series.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jun/25/the-apprentice-2011-prize-winner